PITTSBURGH (AP) -- New England coach Bill Belichick ordered Pittsburgh Steelers trainer John Norwig off the field when Norwig asked if medical help was needed for injured Patriots tackle Matt Light during Sunday's game.

As Light lay on the Heinz Field turf with an apparently serious right leg injury during the second quarter of New England's 23-20 victory, Norwig came onto the field to offer help.

That prompted Belichick, who cautiously guards all injury information, to emphatically order the trainer off the field. Light later left the stadium with a cast on his leg.

NFL trainers normally treat only their own players but will offer their assistance during a serious injury, especially when it involves a visiting team player. Most teams have larger medical staffs for home games than for road games.

Belichick also may have been upset because Steelers coach Bill Cowher went onto the field to offer condolences to Patriots safety Rodney Harrison after he badly injured a knee earlier in the game. Harrison is expected to miss the rest of the season with a torn left knee ligament.

What a prick.Our guy's trying to help Light and Bellicheck orders him away from the injured player.What if our trainer was only telling him to not move at all or it could possibly be injured more.Bellicheck doesn't care about a guy's career or well-being,only about being able to gaurd the injury report.

Now Harrison is out for the year,and I wouldn't be surprised of Light is out for the year or at least misses substantial time.Everyone will know thier week spot when the come back to the field-the knee.It doesn't matter how badly BB lies on the injury report.

Another thing about Harrison really quick.He's one of the most classless players in the NFL.He's always taking cheap shots and trying to injure players,at times successfully (see Duce Staley last year).Well,I think he had this knee injury coming.Hey Rodney,karma's a bitch...ain't it?

Another thing about Harrison really quick.He's one of the most classless players in the NFL.He's always taking cheap shots and trying to injure players,at times successfully (see Duce Staley last year).Well,I think he had this knee injury coming.Hey Rodney,karma's a bitch...ain't it?

Hey Burgher. That's it in a nutshell. Nail meet the head of the hammer.

i posted a funny poll on another board whether rodney will throw bogus flags against the steelers when he becomes an official and 1 dudes response was that hes got 2 things no steeler does: talent and class. ??????????WTF??????????? where to these patriot fans get off thinking that guys like harrison and bruschi are classy. they throw that word around like no other player in the nfl has class and its something that trully seperates their players from all others. bruschi and harrison were 2 of the biggest showboating gloating players in the nfl. barry sanders had class. belichick does not. in fact id have to say dillon, once arriving in n.e. was one of the classiest players they had. robert craft is a classy owner. these crazy patfans need to quit confusing playing hard and being a favorite player with being "classy". sorry patriot fans but your team is no more classy than any other team in the nfl. but then again these are the same people who will try to convince you that manny ramirez is classy taking a piss in the outfield during a game. patriots really havent had a classy player since d. bledsoe or c. martin left. so please dont come here with that "our team is classy crap" walter payton is rolling over in his grave every time you say it.

I'm sure you won't mind if I use my own definition of who has class rather then a Steeler fans definition.

Got your Super Bowl tickets yet?

im sure that is a reference to 2001 when steelers had travel plans arranged for the superbowl (just as the pats and every team does in the conference champ games) weak!

here comes the "no respect card" what defines the patriots class? please tell me why they are so classy whereas other teams are not? i have already posted some classy players and people from that organization and if you could expand on that with proof or examples id be more than happy to add them to my list. if warrick dunn plays for them and i over looked it i would be more than glad to aknowledge it.

The Patriots have always been a classy team because they've always been dignified and respectful on and off the field. If this story is true, then it seems that the team's apparent struggle to maintain that image starts from the top down. There's no excuse for that behavior from a head coach and creating derivations of the word "class" isn't going to fix it. If the Pat's don't care about that image any more or if it simply left with Weis, that's one thing; but, if they want to hold on to that image then they'll have to shape up. Like I said before, it will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether it affects the team in the long run.